84. Sounds Like A DNA Conundrum - The GEDMatch Opt-In Policy

Just The Tip-Sters: True Crime Podcast · May 28, 2019 · 44m

It's been just over a year since the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, the alleged Golden State Killer, who was captured through an ingenious ploy by law enforcement, which registered the then-unknown killer's DNA under a dummy name on GEDMatch, a public DNA-based genealogy website. That sample led to distant relatives of DeAngelo who had registered their DNA on GEDMatch. From there, detectives pared down a list of those relatives until DeAngelo's DNA was confirmed to be a match with that of the murderer. In this past year alone, at least 50 arrests in other cases around the country have…